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overboard

英 ['əʊvəbɔːd] 美['ovɚbɔrd]

adv. 自船上落下；向船外
adj. 极其热心的；全身心投入的

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英英释义

1. to extremes;: "he went overboard to please his in-laws"

2. from on board a vessel into the water;: "they dropped their garbage overboard"

词组搭配

throw something overboard

abandon or discard something

抛弃

考试真题

Many papers stayed afloat by pushing journalists overboard.

实用场景例句

He had jumped overboard in New York harbor and swum to shore.: 他在纽约港跳下船，游上了岸。

His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.: 他的航海教练在一次训练课时从船上失足跌入水中，溺水身亡。

Women sometimes damage their skin by going overboard with abrasive cleansers.: 女性有时因过度使用磨砂膏而损伤了皮肤。

They had thrown their neutrality overboard in the crisis.: 他们在这场危机中丢弃了中立立场。

He seems to have thrown all his principles overboard.: 他似乎放弃了所有的原则.

In a fit of bad temper, Dougie threw the deep fat fryer overboard.: 一气之下，道吉把那个又深又大的油炸锅扔了。

What do you think causes the police to go overboard, to use excessive violence?: 你认为是什么原因导致警察行为过激，滥用暴力？

One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard by the squalling wind.: 稍出差错,咆哮的狂风就会把他扯开,从船上拋入水中.

The crew threw everything movable overboard to lighten the plane.: 为了减轻飞机重量,机上的人员把一切可以移动的东西都扔出机舱.

He fell overboard and was drowned.: 他从船上掉在水里淹死了.

Don't throw that box overboard.: 别把那只箱子抛入水中.

He's overboard for the new TV series.: 他对新的电视连续剧着了迷.

She fell overboard and was drowned.: 她从船上掉入水中淹死了.

The sailors hove the anchor overboard.: 那些水手们把锚投入海中.

The sailors hove [ heaved ] the anchor overboard.: 那些水手们把锚 ( 自船上 ) 投入海中.

助记提示

1. over- "outer" + board "side of a ship".
2. 含义：outer of the side of a ship, over the side of a ship.
3. 也就是越过船舷向外。
4. 由此也引申出了引申义：过度、过分(超过了常规的、正常的界限，都越出船舷了，很显然就越出界限了).

双语例句

1. He had jumped overboard in New York harbor and swum to shore.: 他在纽约港跳下船，游上了岸。

2. His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.: 他的航海教练在一次训练课时从船上失足跌入水中，溺水身亡。

3. Women sometimes damage their skin by going overboard with abrasive cleansers.: 女性有时因过度使用磨砂膏而损伤了皮肤。

4. They had thrown their neutrality overboard in the crisis.: 他们在这场危机中丢弃了中立立场。

5. Mary has gone overboard for some new Eastern religions.: 玛丽现已迷上一种新的东方宗教.

英文词源

overboard (adv.): "over the side of a ship," Old English ofor bord, from over + bord "side of a ship" (see board (n.2)). Figurative sense of "excessively, beyond one's means" (especially in phrase go overboard) first attested 1931 in Damon Runyon.

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